The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-19
A SPREE FOR SCIENCE.
Dr. Hammond's Astonishing Expo
rience with Cocaine.

is lHeTe COCAINE naDlb! LII. Itih-
mond says there is not, and that he
knows it because he has experimental
upon himself for the express purpose of
finding out.
DR.. Hammond details his experience
as follows: Eat lirst l injected one
grain, and experienced an exhlaration
of spirits similar to that produced by
two or three glasses of champagne. "
said DR.. Hammond TO n Sun reporter.
"My powers of Imagination increased.
The physical sensation was delight
full, undulating thrill. was in a very
happy frame OF mind--a sociable mood
and no doubt would have been quite
agreeable company. The after effects
were inability to sleep until in the
morning, and headache when | got
up. The next night took two grains.
and, IN addition t. the sensations de-
scribed, felt desire to write. | had
begun letter to friend, and under
the influence of the drug | extended
what would have been missive of
moderate length to an epstle covering
n wide variety of topics and forty eight
pages of paper. 1t proved to be cor
rectly written and coherent, and gave
much satisfaction to the receiver, but l
found that | had treated diifusely of
many things that ordinarily would not
deem worth mentioning. If man were
DESTROYS of writing TO fill space, or ut
terly eXhaustng a given subject even to
the most trivial details, / would recon-
mend him to fill his inkstand, get
ream or two of paper and plenty of
pens, and have physician give him n
hypodernic injection of cocaine, If you
want TO condense your subject, don't
take cocaine in large doses No doubt
a moderate quantity taken in wine will
st mulate the imagination and enable
one to write more brilliantly and with
less effort than he otherwise could.
Eugene Sue never wrote W thout a bot
tie of champagne at his elbow, and the
luXuriance of his Imagination displayed
in the Wandering jew may be attri-
buted, in part, to the effects Of the wine.
The difference between cocaine and al
cohol as st'mulants is that alcohol has
tendency TO lower the mental and
moral tone and brutalze the nature,
while cocaine has refining, softening
effect Under the influence OF moderate
doses / became rather sentimental and
said nice things to everybody. The
world was going very well, and ] had a
favorable opinion of my fellow men and
women. There was not bit of pugnac-
ity about me, and didn't want to fight,
argue, or dispute W TIL any one.
1.-The next time increased the dose
to three grains, VIII ch numbered my
tongue in the most aston shing way.
/ wanted to talk, and ] d talk, not in
oratorical manner. but ] was just pure
~ loquacious. When nobody was pres
ent talked to myself. There was no
encouragement of the mental faculties,
no disorder of the process of thought.
| talked coherently and correctly, and
am certain that if had been in the
lecture room l should have spoken
much better than usually speak.
was perfectly able to restrain the inn
pulse to talk, but it was pleasant to
speak, and l enjoyed myself hugely.
There was AN abnormal guickoning OF
the faculties; the minds operations
were rapid, and the imagination vivid.
Headache followed.
"Then doubled the quantity Of the
cocoa ne, and became somewhat intoxi-
Gated. The scribblng propens ty re-
turned, and wrote voluminiously.
was preparing medical work, and my
mind was full of the subject matter.
What wrote was an Introduction TO
the book and / thought it very bril-
liant production. Ideas came thick and
fast. aud was persuaded that my COM
position work was going to eclipse any
thing that had ever done in that line.
When l put It away and went to bed.
l congratulated myself that should be
satisfied with my nights work when
should read Il over. didn't sleep at
all that night When I looked over
my famous introduct on found it TO
be arrant nonsense. Each sentence
was complete and coherent in itself, but
none had any relation to the Others, al
though all were in the. general line Of